Busou Renkin

Disguising themselves as humans, homunculi inhabit the world to prey on the unsuspecting population. Created long ago by alchemists from Europe, homunculi are difficult to eliminate without weapons known as Kurogane. Each Kurogane is uniquely shaped according to its wielder's instincts, taking the form of special abilities called Busou Renkin.

While walking home from school one day, Kazuki Mutou spots a defenseless girl under attack by a homunculus. But as he attempts to intervene, the girl ends up saving Kazuki’s life instead, shattering his ignorant worldview. The girl introduces herself as Tokiko Tsumura, and Kazuki soon learns that she has accidentally implanted a Kurogane inside of him. Now unintentionally dragged into the fight against homunculi, Kazuki must forgo his former life of leisure in order to protect the ones he holds dear.

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Tsumura, Tokiko Main

Yuzuki, Ryouka Japanese

Muto, Kazuki Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Chouno, Koushaku Main

Madono, Mitsuaki Japanese

Sakimori, Mamoru Main

Ebara, Masashi Japanese

Powered, Victor Main

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Moon Face Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Hayasaka, Shusui Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Victoria Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Sakaguchi, Shosei Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Muto, Mahiro Supporting

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Chino, Takatoshi Producer

Ooyoshi, Makoto Producer

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Jan 1, 2025

Dompa112

Recommended

Buso Renkin is as much of a 7/10 shounen you get. Very standard by the book shounen that never excells in any area. Not its music. Characters. Story. Fights etc. But in the end despite my doubts halfway in what to think its still decent enough and i do think the second half was its stronger point. Theres more story and plot going on and you get some more background stuff and worthy antagonist. Its a big late though and dont get fleshed out enough, could definetly have more work and more time for it rather than wasting to much of it on the worse ... first part. Nog that its bad but at times watching it the enjoyment i had was more along the Gantz line ”so bad its good” with its stupid dialogue and characters. Especially papillion. But also the butterfly guy. Some of the fights and dialogue were, sorry for using the word, but cringe.

The Op wasnt great but pretty catchy so decent enough. Always a fan of early 2000 animations.

So yeah Buso isnt anything special. But if you like shounen genre its worth a watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 18, 2021

Resting_Bonfire

Mixed Feelings

Busou Renkin

An older Shounen title, which shows most of the usual shortcomings, but has also put something individuality at the table.

This Title comes straight to the point in the first episode and explains to the audience what this story is about and what system this world follows there. It is in fact nothing too earth-shattering, but a more pleasant introduction than in some other Shounen.

I quote the description "Together they have to stop the humunculi now" - unfortunately this takes up almost the first 12 episodes of the work, in which there are almost continuous battles that devour almost the entire episodes and really ... do is very sluggish.

The basic idea of ​​Busou Renkin is not bad, but it failed due to a captivating implementation. This work could have been completed in 14-16 episodes just as well, but it was lengthened immensely.

The end in particular was very daunting. The whole final fight looked very clapped and rested.



Story:


The plot is very simple at the beginning. The protagonist receives these powers and first tries to expand them in various battles and at the same time defeat his enemies. Of course, more and more enemies appear until a master plan emerges. Half of the work is very transparent and quite sluggish. From the second half, the anime takes a slightly different path and the end is also not so certain.

In other words, the story is mainly about struggles with one or the other little enlightenment.

The actual ending and final battle was really flat.

Animation / pictures:


The animations were anything but the yellow of the egg. It was mainly still image animations, which caused the dynamics to shrink to almost 0%. In some scenes, however, they tried to animation more smoothly, but these were completely rare.

I have to give a plus point to the environment, they made it quite pleasant and did not neglect it.

Characters:

The characters also presented themselves quite sympathetically.

The protagonist looked like the usual 0815 number, which he was in the end. He was a thick skull who just kept going through the day with his "I want to protect everyone" talk. His personality, on the other hand, left enough room for development and humor, because apart from his monotonous approaches, he also had other likeable qualities. For example, the protagonist was not particularly stupid and could land a pretty good gag sometimes.

The female protagonist was less likeable , but she wasn't annoying, she was rather dominant. Fortunately, she had no characteristics of the usual female protagonists.

There were almost all different roles among the supporting characters, luckily they were also given a suitable character design and none of them in the foreground, let alone annoyingly implemented.

And of course there was also the butterfly Darling, which was definitely the most personable character of the entire series. His personality, ambitions, design and his way of articulating himself, everything has made him special.


Unfortunately, much of the characters in this work, something like a depth of character. They responded very quickly and gave them hardly any real screen time, which was sacrificed for the long struggles.

Music:


The intro by Busou Renkin had a very special style of singing, which means that I can by no means call this style depleted. The text and the picture were also not bad and the intro had even better animations than the anime itself.

The first outro left a lot to be desired and was now nothing special. The second outro, which was dedicated to a certain character, also had a very interesting style.

The Ost's were also very positively impressive. Nothing was empty and had proven musical taste. In particular, they accompanied the situations well.

This work has done well in the field of music.


My conclusion


This plant had great potential. There was not much to complain about about the music and the characters. However, everything failed in the area of ​​implementation. In particular, the blunt animations for an action shounen and the fights, which were drawn to immense lengths, destroyed a lot of tension.

If you had focused more on the characters or plot, the title would certainly have been more.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 11, 2024

MistyBlue

Not Recommended

Intro to the Review: (skip 2 paragraphs to get into the review)
After reading some of the reviews for this anime, I am somewhat surprised that many express the same thoughts: "this anime was generic as heck, but I still love the darn anime and give it an 8 or higher!"

For me, this anime should not receive anything higher than a 6 because it does not bring anything new to the table of overused concepts and cliches. Most, if not all anime, share some of the same concepts, but exceptionally good ones bring a twist to them that make it enjoyable. For this anime, not ... so much. However, I think those who like the anime might be due to the guy in the butterfly mask (in the anime cover picture), known as Papillon or Chouno in the anime. For more info on that, gloss over to my Character and Art portion. In the review below, I'll explain why this anime is "mediocre" and not "very good".

Story:
It's pretty much like Bleach. Mysterious girl meets boy who saves her...girl gives guy immense power and later you get to meet the organization that she works for. What's different in this anime is that the organization is not as established as the one in Bleach. Instead of meeting a few of them little by little, you meet chunks of them in an episode, giving you time to barely care about them. You barely know about it and the rest of its members until more than halfway through the anime. And then there's the Kakugane (what every alchemist warrior in this show has) that has the ability to transform into a powerful weapon. What is so annoying about this is how the kakugane makes so much BS in the show and yet it is given the least explanation and care about it. But of course, how is our main protagonist going to power up if we can't add some random superpowers along the way? The comedy was stale, the fight scenes were somewhat boring, and there was less and less suspense as the show progressed.

Sound:
The first ED was the main reason why I wanted to watch this series. The song had a beautiful and sad melody to it and it felt poignant to me. This music didn't fit in with 95% of the anime, which was mainly filled with corny jokes, generic fight scenes, and nakama moments. The second ED and OP were cheesy, so it went with the anime. The OST in the anime is pretty much your typical shounen fight scene music.

Art:
The animation was consistent throughout the show; not noteworthy, but not poorly done a majority of the time. The setting in the beginning of the anime is in a generic school scene. What does make this anime memorable to most who have seen this anime would be the character design, most notably Papillon. Shown in the poster of this page, he is not your typical antagonist (at least in the fashion sense). His flamboyant attire is the only thing he's got going in terms of "uniqueness" and it overshadows the rest of the characters.

Character:
Speaking of characters, let's start off with Papillion since that's what the show ever cares about (he even has the entire second ED to himself). At first, I thought he'd have a major impact in the story, but he's just there ...to be there in all of his bizarre glory. I swear that whoever made this story up made a character as flamboyant as he was just to hide the fact that the story is lackluster and offers nothing new in the shounen category. If you have seen HxH, he might remind you of Hisoka, an antagonist of a story whom several anime watchers might like because of his eccentric attitude, attire, personality, and strength. To me, Papillon gave me the feeling of, "Oh, it's you again" (kinda like Team Rocket) every time he appeared on the screen. I just feel like he is more like a moth than a butterfly...always flying over your head, making sure you don't forget about him. His personality and reason for going against the MC is so lame that sometimes you think the author just threw on a butterfly suit on him just to make him more appealing as a villain. If you pay attention enough, he'll say hypocrite whenever he appears.

All you need to know about the MC, Muto, is that he is the perfect mold of a shounen character: he's got the hair, the "I gotta save the world without getting anyone killed" catchphrase, the power to overpower anyone that overpowered him before in less than a month, and the ability to easily overcome life and death situations every time. You can't hate this guy as the MC, right? Right? One thing I do like about him is that he doesn't have a sad past like the common shounen character.

Then there's Tokiko, the blue-haired girl with a scar across her face. She's a stern and serious girl, but she's also very caring inside. I do give her credit though for being able to hold up in most of the fights she's been in, despite the fact that Muto has been doing the heavy lifting a majority of the anime. That's pretty much it about her. The rest of the characters felt so generic, forgettable, and disposable, that you get expected responses from Tokiko and Muto and you probably won't remember their names while watching the show. Like I said before, a chunk of characters get shoved in one episode and over a span of some episodes, making you go "meh" every time they show up on the screen. There's really nothing exciting about the characters.

Enjoyment:
What was there to enjoy in this anime? The characters were boring and annoying, the comedy was cheesy and short-lived, and the battle animation was sub par. Just because it adhered to the typical shounen genre with the flashy battle scenes and added in some weird characters that didn't really belong in this show, I didn't enjoy it at all. It didn't excite me enough to want to continue to the next episode.

Overall, the story, it's characters, and the art didn't captivate me. Things that annoyed me the most were the lack of good storytelling, disposable side characters who waste precious screentime and an ordinary MC who preaches the same thing, and convenient power ups that feel like a cheat to a game.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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